9.0/1026 votes#1 - Valley of the Shadow (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/8/2000
All Saints is thrown into emergency status when an explosion creates chaos and carnage. The disaster becomes personal when the staff realise that Von is missing. Steph has to put aside her fears about her own pregnancy while Ben and Bron fight to save the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn child.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: David Phillips
- 9.1/1023 votes
#2 - Valley of the Shadow (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2000
Alex Richards is free from the rubble. She is unconscious, suffering head injuries and in urgent need of surgery. Luke and John Madsen perform a craniotomy to remove a haematoma, and although Alex survives the operation she suffers a respiratory arrest on the Ward. Steph manages to stabilise her but she goes into a coma. Her prognosis is not good and her mother, Di, is distraught. Luke and Madsen are operating on Rob when the word comes through he is the one responsible for setting the bombs. Luke has just heard of Alex's decline and is so angry he does not care whether Rob lives or dies. But he learns a lesson in professionalism from Madsen. Unknown to all of them, Rob left a ticking bomb on the Ward when he went into surgery. He is prepared to lose his life for the sake of his vendetta. Jared is nursing Mrs Price who is frantic about her two missing children, Caitlin and Rowen. When news comes through the kids have been located, Jared suggest Bosco might go over to the site to entertain and distract the kids while the rescue workers try to free them. Bosco laughs in Jared's face and says he has no intention of putting his life in danger and says he is going home. Over at the Medical Centre, Bron and Ben are just at about their wit's end trying to calm Rowen and Caitlin, when out of nowhere (it seems) a clown appears. Bosco calms the kids and he finally has an audience who appreciates his jokes. In the middle of the chaos, Mitch proposes to Rose. It never occurred to him she might want time to consider his proposal. In fact, there are a few delicate matters concerning his past that she wants to discuss before she will give him a genuine answer. Tension levels on the Ward rise even higher when it is learnt Rob is being sent back to Ward 17 after surgery. When Alex's distraught mother Di discovers the man responsible for the bomb is on the Ward after she loses control. She barges into Robs room and starts to attack him. AS far as she is concerned, it is totally unfair for him to live through when it looks like her daughter is dying. Terri has to throw herself in front of Rob to defend him. It is then he tells Terri there is one more bomb...
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Margaret Wilson
- 8.8/1018 votes
#3 - Bending and Breaking
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/2000
Bron is given a glimpse of what her future could be like with Luke when surgeon John Madsen's wife and brother are admitted to the Ward following an incriminating incident. Regina resorts to radical and desperate means to save a charming, young Irishman from deportation. The Ward is in fierce competition as they prepare for battle in the annual All Saints fundraising bed race!
Director: Kevin Carlin
Writer: Anthony Ellis
- 8.7/1016 votes
#4 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/2000
Terri's patience is tried to the limit by the demands of an aging and embittered TV star who has suffered terrible facial scarring from an acid attack. Pregnant and overtired, Steph's worst nightmare looms large when she starts to bleed and suffer severe stomach cramps. Cold-shouldered by Bron, Luke accepts a drinks invitation from a glamorous patient and is shocked by a proposal she has for him. Mitch is concerned Regina is becoming too fixated on her wedding plans.
Director: Peter Fisk
Writer: John Banas
- 8.4/1015 votes
#5 - First Do No Harm
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/2000
On an inspection tour of the hospital, Professor Caroline Edgewater and her grand-daughter Phoebe are pleased to encounter Mitch, Caroline's former student and a friend to both of them. Mitch was a close friend of Caroline's daughter Sarah, who died of cancer when Phoebe was little and he was emotional support to all of them during the difficult months of her illness. Time and tyranny of distance have meant they have lost touch but Phoebe and Mitch quickly fall back in to their former affectionate, teasing relationship.
Director: Nicky Marshall
Writer: Ro Hume
- 8.9/1018 votes
#6 - After the Ball
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/2000
There is an atmosphere of excitement on the Ward as everyone prepares for the Hospital Fundraiser Ball. Both Mitch and Von deny having bought Terri's ball dress. Nervous and excited, Terri leaves work early to get ready for the ball.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Charlie Strachan
- 8.5/1015 votes
#7 - Command and Control
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/14/2000
Terri leaves the Community House and returns to Ward 17. She has healed somewhat since the death of Neil Phillips a week ago, but Terri knows a return to her usual world will be a trying time. Von gives her all the support she can, but so far Terri's ordeal is not general knowledge and Mitch has decided to make himself scarce. Terri gets stuck into office work, avoiding contact with the patients and awkwardly deflecting the friendly inquiries of her colleagues. Meanwhile, rumours are circulating about a rape and fatal stabbing.
Director: Geoffrey Cawthorn
Writer: Chris Hawkshaw
- 8.0/1017 votes
#8 - A Fraction Too Much Friction
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/21/2000
Lucke's bro was brought from the jail on order to have an operation & bring out the gillette blades he had eaten to get outta the jail.they didn't seem to be friendly till lucke found out there's something wrong with his bro & finally decided to get some help about it.Terry's still depresed.Ben & his partner tried to get along.
Director: Peter Fisk
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 8.5/1015 votes
#9 - A Fine Balance
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/28/2000
Mitch goes to great personal and professional lengths to diagnose the illness of an aspiring Olympic athlete who accuses him of molesting her. Bron learns an important lesson about herself while dealing with a difficult situation. Von wants a dying patient to divorce her loving husband — but for whose benefit? A hungry street kid pays a visit to Ward 17 and brings some joy to a lonely, old man. Ben and Bron are called out to the site of a fatal motorcycle accident where Bron finds herself searching for the victim's decapitated head.
Director: Catherine Roden
Writer: Serge Lazareff
- 8.5/1016 votes
#10 - In the Blood
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/2000
Terri endeavours to put the horror of Neil Phillips' death behind her and get on with her life. She has even decided to move back to her old flat, after living in the Sisters' Community House.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Peter A. Kinloch
- 8.2/1016 votes
#11 - Hearts and Minds
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/2000
Luke's career is threatened when a simple medical procedure goes horribly wrong and a vindictive colleague falsely accuses him of gross negligence. Terri's past comes back to haunt her when she encounters a patient who reminds her of her former stalker. Bron and Ben's teamwork is put to the test when a drug addict patient attacks Ben. Jared and Kylie treat a retiree with a bad heart and an amazing sex life.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Anthony Ellis
- 8.5/1014 votes
#12 - Food for Thought
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/2000
As Luke faces the internal investigation into his supposed negligence, he is forced to defend himself, putting his career and relationship with Bron on the line. Ben attends the attempted suicide of a mysterious young man. Will the truth of his haunted psyche be revealed before it's too late? Mitch goes into battle against the hospital authorities when patient's relatives are forced to sleep in the car park due to lack of funds.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Margaret Wilson
- 8.1/1015 votes
#13 - Blessed Release
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2000
A young man struggles with the news that to save his life, a large portion of his face will have to be removed. A young woman uses her anorexia to regain media notoriety. Kylie suspects a patient has tuberculosis and refuses to listen when Von questions her diagnosis. Ben and Bron are faced with an emergency when a boy, whose head is stuck between the metal bars of a security door, is stung by a bee.
Director: Peter Fisk
Writer: David Phillips
- 8.6/1015 votes
#14 - Rush to Judgement
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2000
Nursing Unit Manager Cynthia Murdoch has devoted the past 25 years of her life to the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Unit attached to All Saints. But, despite her superhuman efforts, the place is rundown, understaffed, last on the queue for funds and generally under continual pressure from the administration.
Director: Catherine Roden
- 8.6/1016 votes
#15 - Judge Not...
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2000
Terri's trial begins. Prosecution barrister Marion Lord tells the Jury Terri murdered Neil Phillips to keep their love affair secret. Terri is horrified Lord should believe she is a cold-blooded killer. Her barrister Steve Coulter assures her all that matters is what the Jury believe at the end of the trial.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Charlie Strachan
- 8.6/1016 votes
#16 - ...Lest Ye Be Judged
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2000
The final day of Terri's trial begins. She is horrified as prosecution barrister Marion Lord continues to paint her as some fallen woman. The nosy neighbour Gilda gives the Jury the impression Terri was not only having an affair with Neil Phillips but also had another lover, namely Mitch.
Director: Peter Fisk
Writer: Charlie Strachan
- 8.6/1014 votes
#17 - Duty of Care
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/2000
Ward 17 is notified it is being closed down in favour of more specialised wards. Understandably the staff, and Terri in particular, are horrified to learn the team is to be split up. Claudia MacKenzie takes over from Stan Ridgeway as hospital CEO and despite all pleas to reconsider, keeps her eyes firmly on the bottom line — hospitals are a business like any other.
Director: Catherine Roden
Writer: Louise Crane-Bowes
- 8.4/1014 votes
#18 - Beyond All Praise
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/2000
Terri takes on Claudia McKenzie, the hospital's new CEO, as the ward's closure becomes a reality and Terri finds herself being used by the hospital administation in PR exercise against the striking nurses.
Director: Scott Feeney
Writer: Fiona Kelly
- 8.4/1017 votes
#19 - Out of Nowhere
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 6/6/2000
Linda Davies, formerly of the now-closed Ward 12 and now an agency nurse, arrives to help out on Ward 17. Connor, who had tried to make her intimate acquaintance at the All Saints' Ball, takes her under his wing and trusts her with some of his patient medications. Unbeknownst to him, Linda is a pethidine addict who absconds with the patients' doses.
Director: Di Drew
Writer: Serge Lazareff
- 8.3/1014 votes
#20 - Frozen in Time
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2000
Terri is finding counselling is doing nothing to help her anxiety and guilt over the death of Neil Phillips. Forced onto medication, she attempts to straighten herself out by working back on the ward in general nursing, handing the reins over to a delighted Steph.
Director: Peter Fisk
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 8.7/1019 votes
#21 - Girl of the Moment
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 6/20/2000
Steph steps into Terri's shoes as Nursing Unit Manager but alienates her colleagues with her demanding behaviour. Bron uncovers the shocking family secret that drove sisters apart 23 years ago when the sister of a brain-damaged patient insists her sister be allowed to die so she can receive an insurance payout. Luke is convinced his good relationship with Madsen is over for good when he risks a patient's safety by operating with an injured hand. Mitch and Kylie deal with a hypochondriac while Connor learns a lesson of the heart.
Director: Catherine Roden
Writer: Chris Hawkshaw
- 9.2/1019 votes
#22 - Dead on Time
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/2000
Connor becomes Acting NUM when Steph is uncharacteristically late for the morning shift. Anxiety mounts as the morning wears on. Ben and Bron meanwhile, arrive on the scene of a terrible car smash to discover with horror that Steph is the critically injured driver of one of the cars. Bron is forced to take command of on-site medical assistance as Ben becomes paralysed by fear and anguish. His anger erupts in violence against the bewildered drunken driver of the other car and he has to be pulled off by the arresting police. Relieved by the Police Rescue Squad and a second team of paramedics, Ben sits with his wife, coaxing her to remain conscious, urging her to hang on
Director: Scott Feeney
Writer: Anthony Ellis
- 8.6/1017 votes
#23 - Blood, Sweat and Tears
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/2000
The staff of Ward 17 fight desperately to save the life of a sixteen-year-old boy suffering from a rare blood disorder. The situation intensifies when he begins to haemorrhage internally and Mitch doesn't think he can stop the bleeding. Two high school friends end up on the ward after mixing an ecstasy tablet with too much booze at their high-school reunion. Following Steph's funeral, Steph's mother returns to Ward 17 to see where her daughter worked and becomes involved with the staff and patients. Meanwhile, Luke bonds with a young woman with Downs Syndrome, and Bron grows concerned for Ben when she see how he is coping with Steph's death.
Director: Di Drew
Writer: Margaret Wilson
- 8.5/1015 votes
#24 - Twentieth Century Blues
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 7/11/2000
When Ben and Bron answer a cry for help they find a woman, Lynette Newman, living in a sealed flat, under rigidly sterile conditions. A fall has given Lynette head injuries and she is transferred to All Saints and ultimately to Ward 17. She displays a paranoid fear of being there, and what appears to be a obsessive/compulsive disorder. Connor, currently Acting NUM, wants Lynette transferred to the Psych unit. Mitch suspects there is more to it and insists Lynette remain on the ward.
Director: Scott Hartford-Davis
Writer: David Phillips
- 8.6/1013 votes
#25 - Into the Unknown
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 7/18/2000
Bron is nurse in charge for the night shift on Ward 17. Von isn't too impressed when Bron tries to delegate all the work to her and agency nurse Amanda but Bron is forced to take on responsibility for an elderly nun. Sister Frances is desperately confused, constantly asking for the nurses to contact another Sister who, Bron learns, died twenty years ago.
Director: Catherine Roden
Writer: Charlie Strachan
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Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency...
Genre:Drama
Network:Seven Network
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Valley of the Shadow (1)" is the best rated episode of "All Saints" season 3. It scored 9/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Mark Piper and written by David Phillips, it aired on 2/8/2000. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Valley of the Shadow (2)".